H.M. Naqvi is the author of Home Boy, winner of the 2011 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.

He spent his childhood between Karachi, New York, Algiers and Islamabad. He graduated with a degree in Economics and English Literature and has worked in the financial services industry, ran the only slam poetry venue in Washington DC, The Fifteen Minutes Club, and taught creative writing at Boston University. He represented Pakistan in the National Poetry Slam in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1995 and his poetry has been broadcast in NPR and the BBC.

He has received the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, the Phelam Prize for poetry, and has participated in the Brooklyn Book Festival, the Jaipur Literature Festival, Art Dubai, Lollapalooza, and the IWP residency at the University of Iowa.

Ensconced in Karachi, H.M. Naqvi is working on his second novel. He smokes Davidoffs.